Saturday, May 22, 2010

Pop-up Cards

Had this post sitting on my dashboard for ages-forgot all about it.Here's another very simple paper craft the girls didthe other day - pop-up cards. My kids like anythingthat seems magical, and 3D is magical to them. We startedout folding some lined filler paper accordian-style.We used the lined paper because it was thin andthe lines help with the regularity of the pleats.Then we cut each folded sheet into narrow strips,drew a picture on a card, and stuck (with glue) thefolded paper on one half of the card,right at the middle fold.Then we put another line of glue on the other half of the cardand stuck the other short end of the foldedpaper to it, to make a fanlike soand made a few more umbrella cards.Then we drew ballerinas and made tutus.We stopped at ballerinas and umbrellas, although youcould go on to other things like mushrooms, flowers,carousel roofs, flowerpots, wigs......Then we tried another, different kind of pop-up card.We cut out animals and gave them slit mouths. Wefolded a diamond around the slit mouthto make beak-type lips.Then we stuck the animal with glue on a card, so themouth part is along the middle fold of the cardand pops open when the card is closed.But before gluing the animal down,we drew worms in the bird's mouthand bread in the fish's.There are millions of kinds of pop-up cards out there,but we picked these two because the kids could makethem pretty much by themselves without much knife-work.I pleated the filler paper for them, but otherwise theydid what they wanted. And that was how we spent aparticularly rainy morning in our house.

My kids love making pop-up cards too. We must try the accordion one, I love using it as an umbrella - had not thought of that. A technique I really recommend trying, as my daughter keeps making it again and again, is when you make a box pop-out shape that you can glue anything too - I have an example at http://www.papercraftsforchildren.com/2010/03/25/pop-up-card/, and one my daughter made at http://www.papercraftsforchildren.com/2010/05/09/my-mothers-day-cards/.Thanks,

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I am a gratefully unemployed mom of three girls, all of whom are growing up much too soon! I like piles of warm, fresh laundry, the smell of salt air near the beach where I used to live, making lists, anything round (like heads) and the quiet evenings sitting with the man of the house after the kids are in bed.

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